Join us in the Jonsson Performance Hall for a free, informal concert series, created and sponsored by the music faculty.
These concerts will feature UT Dallas faculty including
Kathryn Evans, Enric Madriguera, Mary Medrick,
Hoyt Neal, Winston Stone and invited guests, performing
and talking about music and music-making.
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Elledanceworks Dance Company
Wednesday, April 16, 5:30 pm, Jonsson Performance Hall, FREE.
Elledanceworks Dance Company presents “Dance in the Raw: an informal discussion and presentation” of works by Elledanceworks co directors Ronelle Eddings and UTD faculty member Michele Hanlon, and Elledanceworks company members Tracy Kennedy and Tiffanee Arnold. The company will perform 5 works with discussion about the works by the choreographers and dancers … questions are welcome!
Elledanceworks Dance Company is dedicated to promoting the arts with special attention to promoting excellence in modern dance choreography, performance, and education. The company has been performing regionally and in the Metroplex for almost eleven years presenting concerts, participating in educational and choreographic residencies, and performing as guests of other arts organizations and institutions. This May, Elledanceworks will once again travel to the southwest presenting works in concert at the Scott Theatre in Phoenix, Arizona
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Enric Madriguera
Wednesday, January 23
5:00 p.m. Jonsson Performance Hall
A concert on historic replica period instruments from the Renaissance, Baroque, and Classic periods.
Featuring the early modern music of Europe, recently performed in festival in Ecuador, Spain and Mexico in 2007.
Enric Madriguera is Director of Guitar Studies at Eastfield College and at the University of Texas at Dallas. He is co-founder of the Mesquite Summer Guitar Camp and Festival at Eastfield College and Artistic Director of the Guitar Concert Series and the Annual Texas Competition at UT Dallas. As a recording artist, he has CD releases on Encore Gold – “Old World/New World” and “Duo Madriguera” with Sabine Madriguera, the Documentary Arts Label – “Guitars of the Americas” with Felix Casaverde, and the CRI Label, “Frida” and “Voces Americanas.” The CRI releases are contemporary chamber music with the new music ensemble Voices of Change. “Voz y Guitarra” with soprano Kathryn Evans is a release sponsored by the School of Arts and Humanities at UTD that features works for guitar and voice and solo guitar by Ernesto Cordero and John Duarte. Madriguera is an active teacher, adjudicator, and performer. In 2003, he was a judge for the Guitar Foundation of America (GFA) in Merida, and in 2004 for the International Festival and Competition held in Rust, Austria. The GFA also invited Enric to serve on the judging panel for the semi and final rounds of its International Competition at Oberlin Conservatory in October 2005. As a writer, Madriguera has contributed to Soundboard and Classical Guitar magazines.
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Ronald Neal and Gloria Lin
Wednesday, November 14
5:00 p.m., Jonsson Performance Hall, free
Ronald Neal, director-concertmaster and violinist of the Dallas Chamber Orchestra, and internationally-known pianist Gloria Lin, perform classical duets.
Sonatensatz, Op. posthumus........... Johannes Brahms
Sonata, Op. 6, 1983........................... Robert Avalon
Sonata in A Major ...............................Cesar Franck
Violinist Ronald Neal has served as Director-Concertmaster of the Dallas Chamber Orchestra for three decades. Concert activities have taken Mr. Neal throughout North, Central and South America, Iceland, Europe, China and Japan. Mr. Neal has served as director-concertmaster of the following orchestras: Dallas Chamber Orchestra, Austin Chamber Orchestra, New England Chamber Orchestra, Shenyang Chamber Orchestra (China) and Beijing International Music School and Festival Orchestra. An interest in the music of living composers led Neal to the co-founding of the contemporary music group "Voices of Change".
The Austin Chamber Orchestra was formed by Mr. Neal in the Spring of 2000 and Neal served as artistic director for two seasons. In 1996 the Elan International Music Festival program was developed by Ronald Neal. The program was designed by Mr. Neal as a result of two and a half decades experience as artistic director of music festivals, collaborating with international concert artists and faculty from the leading musical institutions. Ronald Neal is also the Founder of and for fourteen seasons served as Artistic Director of the Killington Music Festival, an international music festival held in the summer months in Killington, Vermont.
Mr. Neal received the Bachelor of Music degree and the Performers Certificate from the Eastman School of Music and the Master of Music degree from the Juilliard School.
Pianist Gloria Lin appears in major venues and cities around the world such as Alice Tully Hall and the United Nations in New York; Washington DC; the Ford Center in Toronto, Canada; France; Japan, Spain; Venezuela; and her native Taiwan. Recent highlights include appearances in the United States at Chamber Music America’s 25th Anniversary Marathon Concert at Symphony Space, and the Kosciuszko Foundation in New York; SummerFest La Jolla, California; the XIV International Music Festival in Morelia, Mexico; and the Carlos Chavez Hall in Mexico City. Her performances have been broadcast on prestigious national and international media such as NPR’s Performance Today, WNYC’s Soundcheck, and Japanese public television NHK. Engagements for the 2006/07 season include recitals and master-classes in Morelia and Puebla, Mexico, presented by the 5th Carlos Prieto International Cello Competition and the 7th Congress of the Americas, and return performances in the Sociedad Filarmonica series in Lima, Peru, as well as return performances in the Cliburn at the Modern series and in the TCU Faculty & Friends Chamber Music Series in Fort Worth, Texas.
Among numerous awards, Gloria Lin is the winner of the Dora Zaslavsky Koch Piano Competition, the Chopin Council of Greater New York Competition, and was awarded the Grand Prize at the Young Keyboard Artist Association International Competition as well as the First Prize at the National Youth Piano Competition in Taiwan.
Dr. Lin was educated at The Juilliard School (Pre-College division), the Interlochen Arts Academy, the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor (Bachelor of Music), the Manhattan School of Music (Master of Music), and at Indiana University-Bloomington (Doctor of Music).
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Acoustic Quartet
Wednesday, October 10, 5:00 p.m.
Jonsson
Performance Hall, free
The Acoustic Quartet performs music from a variety Western culture which features the violin, clarinet, accordion, and bass. Repertoire ranges from sultry French ballades to Polish polkas and includes Viennese waltzes, Cajun zydeco, Le jazz hot, and klezmer.
Amy Faires,
violin
A diverse freelancer and studio musician, Amy Faires holds both a Bachelor and Master's degree in Violin Performance from Texas Christian University. She currently plays with the Dallas Opera Orchestra and the Fort Worth Symphony, and recently spent a summer playing with the AIMS Festival Orchestra in Graz, Austria. Although classically trained, Amy has added bluegrass, salsa, zydeco, jazz, Irish, and klezmer music to her repertoire since playing in the world music group Tin Roof Tango. Among her favorite experiences have been performing with such artists as Diana Ross, James Taylor, Smokey Robinson, Ray Charles, Wayne Newton, Anne Murray, and Rod Stewart.
Mary Medrick, accordion
Mary Medrick is a writer/arranger
who is active as a musical director, keyboardist
and vocal coach. Along with graduate study
in music at UNT, Medrick holds an M.A. in
Arts & Humanities from UTD. As a keyboardist,
she has toured 17 countries and has performed
under the direction of such conductors as
Johnny Green, Christopher Wilkins (San Antonio
Symphony), David Stahl (Charleston Symphony)
and Graeme Jenkins (Dallas Opera). Along
with studio recording, Medrick arranges
commercial music, including jazz vocal arrangements,
which have been performed by the UTD Chamber
Singers. She directed UTD’s 2002 production
of the musical Personals. Her original libretto
for the opera The Old Majestic, a collaboration
with UTD faculty composer Dr. Robert Xavier
Rodriguez, was showcased in 2003 by the
New York City Opera and will be performed
in April 2004 by the opera department of
UT Austin. As a composer, Medrick has written
two Broadway-style shows based on the Frankenstein
legend and, in 2003, was commissioned to
write High Popalorum, a musical about Louisiana
politicians. Ms. Medrick is Undergraduate
Advisor for Arts & Humanities and teaches
piano and art courses at UTD.
Stone Savage, bass
Stone Savage, double bass. Stone studied bass with Clifford Spohr and Tom Lederer of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and also with Stuart Sankey at the University of Texas and Thomas Martin of the Guildhall School of Music. He is known primarily as a jazz musician, but has played a wide variety of music including rhythm and blues, country and bluegrass. He has a long association with jazz saxophonists Louis Hubert and James Clay. Currently a freelance musician in the Dallas area, he often works with multi-reed player Winston Stone and pianist Tommy DeSalvo. He has performed with Sammy Price, Freddie Cole, Red Garland, Jaki Byard and Cedar Walton. Stone Savage is also a composer. Recent works include “The West Dallas Suite” (1989) as well as the theme music for two shows on Public Radio: “Texas Bound” and the “Writer’s Studio”.
Winston Stone, clarinet
Winston Stone graduated from the State University of New York with a Bachelor of Music degree in music education and a Masters of Music degree in clarinet performance. Originally from New York City, Winston has performed at Carnegie Recital Hall, Town Hall, Merkin Concert Hall as well as in numerous Off-Broadway theaters. Mr. Stone's other credits include principal clarinet in the Brooklyn Opera Society, Cosmopolitan Symphony Orchestra, Manhattan Savoyards, Atlantic Wind Symphony and the American Concert Band. Concurrently, Mr. Stone was a solfeggist and now a composer with the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP). Winston was also a featured tenor saxophone soloist at the Mobile Jazz Festival.
Since coming to Dallas, Mr. Stone has performed with such noted artists as Ray Charles, James Taylor, Aretha Franklin, Bernadette Peters, Johnny Mathis, Paul Anka, Maureen McGovern, Mel Torme, Natalie Cole, Steve Allen, Mac Davis, Ben Vareen, Carol Channing, Tommy Tune, Jim Nabors, Harry Blackstone and Jerry Lewis. Mr. Stone has also performed with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Fort Worth Symphony, Fort Worth-Dallas Ballet, Richardson Symphony, Dallas Opera, Casa Manana Musicals, Fine Arts Chamber Players (Dream Collectors), and Texas Winds. Mr. Stone has performed with the prestigious Grand Teton Music Festival chamber music series and the Arundel Music Festival at Arundel Castle, England and as a soloist was heard in an acclaimed performance of Artie Shaw's Concerto for Clarinet with the East Texas Symphony Orchestra. Teaching credentials include more than twenty years as a private music instructor along with eight years as a band, jazz band and orchestra director in both public and private schools. For nine years he was an instructor of woodwinds, music theory and composition at Cedar Valley College and currently is a lecturer of music at UT Dallas.
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Lieder Recital
Wednesday, September 19, special time - 5:30 p.m.
Jonsson
Performance Hall, free
Faculty @ Five opens with A Lieder Recital featuring Kathryn Evans, soprano and Michael McVay, piano, in conjunction with the UT Dallas German Club. Reception following the concert. The program will include songs of Franz Schubert, Robert Schumann and Johannes Brahms:
Gretchen am Spinnrade (Gretchen at the Spinning Wheel) ......Franz Schubert
Erlkönig (The Elf King) ............................Franz Schubert
Liederkreis (Song Cycle), Op. 39 .........Robert Schumann
Zigeunerlieder (Gypsy Songs) .............Johannes Brahms
Kathryn Evans joined the faculty of the University of Texas at Dallas in 1994. Currently, she serves as the Associate Dean for the Arts in the School of Arts and Humanities, teaches vocal and choral music, and directs the UTD Chamber Singers. She is an accomplished recitalist and chamber musician, performing in the Dallas-Ft.Worth area and in Europe. Before coming to UTD, she was the Director of the Bach Society Chamber Orchestra and Chorus in La Jolla, California and the Musical Director of the Orpheus Ensemble. She founded and directed the Washington Pro Musica and the Early Music Ensemble of San Diego. She has directed European concert tours of Switzerland, Germany, France and Italy. Ms. Evans holds Master of Arts degrees in Music and in Mathematics from the University of California at San Diego. Ms. Evans has completed tours of music for voice and guitar with fellow faculty member Dr. Enric Madriguera in Austria, Switzerland, the Czech Republic and Mexico. Ms. Evans released the CD “Voz y Guitarra” with Dr. Madriguera in October of 2003 and is the Executive Director of the Annual Texas Guitar Competition. She recently appeared as the Mother Abbess in the “Sound of Music” and directed the UTD Chamber Singers in “La Boheme/Rent” at UTD.
Michael McVay earned a B.M. in piano performance from the University of Missouri/Kansas City Conservatory, an Associate Degree from the Royal College of Music and an M.M. in music theory from the University of North Texas. Previous posts include lecturer at LaSalle/SIA College of the Arts in Singapore, Assistant Professor of Music Theory at Austin College, visiting faculty member in music theory at UNT, and staff accompanist at Southeastern Oklahoma State University. McVay is a staff accompanist at UTD and will teach a music theory class in the Fall Semester. He performs regularly in the Dallas/Fort Worth area. His CD, Michael McVay and Friends, can be heard on Dallas radio station KAAM.
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